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“joel kaye”

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  • A History of Balance, 1250–1375

    The Emergence of a New Model of Equilibrium and its Impact on Thought

    by Joel Kaye ...
    The ideal of balance and its association with what is ordered, just, and healthful remained unchanged throughout the medieval period. The central place allotted to balance in the workings of nature and society also remained unchanged. What changed within the culture of scholasticism, between approximately 1280 and 1360, was the emergence of a greatly expanded sense of what balance is and can be. ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

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    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule?It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book ... Read more

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  • From the Tree to the Labyrinth

    by Umberto Eco ...
    How we create and organize knowledge is the theme of this major achievement by Umberto Eco. Demonstrating once again his inimitable ability to bridge ancient, medieval, and modern modes of thought, he offers here a brilliant illustration of his longstanding argument that problems of interpretation can be solved only in historical context. ... Read more

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  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

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  • Athanasius Kircher

    The Last Man Who Knew Everything

    Edited by Paula Findlen ...
    First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt -- almost anything incompletely understood. Kircher coined the term electromagnetism, printed ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne

    Edited by Ullrich Langer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), the great Renaissance skeptic and pioneer of the essay form, is known for his innovative method of philosophical inquiry which mixes the anecdotal and the personal with serious critiques of human knowledge, politics and the law. He is the first European writer to be intensely interested in the representations of his own intimate life, including not just his ... Read more

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  • Composing the World

    Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos

    by Andrew Hicks ...
    Series series Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound
    "We can hear the universe!" This was the triumphant proclamation at a February 2016 press conference announcing that the Laser Interferometer Gravity Observatory (LIGO) had detected a "transient gravitational-wave signal." What LIGO heard in the morning hours of September 14, 2015 was the vibration of cosmic forces unleashed with mind-boggling power across a cosmic medium of equally mind-boggling ... Read more

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  • Renaissance Meteorology

    Pomponazzi to Descartes

    by Craig Martin ...
    Craig Martin takes a careful look at how Renaissance scientists analyzed and interpreted rain, wind, and other natural phenomena like meteors and earthquakes and their impact on the great thinkers of the scientific revolution.Martin argues that meteorology was crucial to the transformation that took place in science during the early modern period. By examining the conceptual foundations of the ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • Nothing Natural Is Shameful

    Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe

    by Joan Cadden ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    In his Problemata, Aristotle provided medieval thinkers with the occasion to inquire into the natural causes of the sexual desires of men to act upon or be acted upon by other men, thus bringing human sexuality into the purview of natural philosophers, whose aim it was to explain the causes of objects and events in nature. With this philosophical justification, some late medieval intellectuals ... Read more

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  • Subverting Aristotle

    Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science

    by Craig Martin ...
    How new thinking about history, evidence, and scientific authority depended on undermining the authority of Aristotelianism.“The belief that Aristotle’s philosophy is incompatible with Christianity is hardly controversial today,” writes Craig Martin. Yet “for centuries, Christian culture embraced Aristotelian thought as its own, reconciling his philosophy with theology and church doctrine. The ... Read more

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  • Dust Bound for Heaven

    Explorations in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas

    by Reinhard Hütter ...
    In Dust Bound for Heaven Reinhard Hütter shows how Thomas Aquinas's view of the human being as dust bound for heaven weaves together elements of two questions without fusion or reduction. Does humanity still have an insatiable thirst for God that sends each person on an irrepressible religious quest that only the vision of God can quench? Or must the human being, living after the fall, become a ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy

    Edited by James Hankins ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and modern philosophy, but the essays collected here, by a distinguished ... Read more

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